HMS Rajah (D10)
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USS Prince (CVE-45) (originally named McClure, designated AVG-45 then later ACV-45) was an escort carrier laid down on 17 December 1942 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation of Tacoma, Washington. She was renamed Prince on 13 November 1942 and launched on 18 May 1943. She was sponsored by Mrs. J. L. McGuigan, reclassified CVE-45 on 15 July 1943 and transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease on 17 October 1943.
Rajah in 1944 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Prince |
Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 17 December 1942 |
Launched | 18 May 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Navy |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Rajah |
Commissioned | 17 January 1944 |
Decommissioned | 7 February 1947 |
Identification | Pennant number:D10 |
Fate | Sold as a merchant ship; sold for scrap 1975 |
General characteristics | |
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Displacement | 9,800 tons |
Length | 495 ft 7 in (151.05 m) |
Beam | 69 ft 6 in (21.18 m) |
Draught | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
Propulsion | Steam turbines, one shaft, 8,500 shp (6.3 MW) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Complement | 646 officers and men |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 24 |
Prince served the United Kingdom as HMS Rajah (D10). She was returned to the United States Navy at Norfolk, Virginia on 13 December 1946. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry on 7 February 1947 and delivered to her purchaser, Waterman Steamship Corporation, on 7 July. She became the merchant ship Drente (later renamed Lambros, then Ulysses) in 1948. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1975.